Sentences with phrase «incorrect jury instruction»

South Dakota Medical Malpractice Incorrect Jury Instruction: A New South Dakota Supreme Court Case

Silver's conviction for doing legislative favors in return for legal referral fees and 12 - year prison sentence was reversed because of incorrect jury instructions, but prosecutors from the office of acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim told the judge it is in the «public interest» to retry him quickly.

Not exact matches

The judges wrote that most people would view those scenarios with «distaste,» but they ruled that the instructions that the trial judge gave to the Silver jury were incorrect.

Silver, who was arrested on corruption charges just months prior to Skelos, had his conviction tossed this summer when a judge determined the jury was given incorrect instructions.

Kim says the only issue in the appeals panel decision is that the jury instructions were incorrect, because of the recent Supreme Court decision, which involved former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife.

An appeals court used a recent Supreme Court precedent to say the jury had been given incorrect instructions in the case.

Kim said the only issue in the appeals panel decision is that the jury instructions were incorrect, because of the recent Supreme Court decision, which involved former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife.

Lawyers for Selivanov and Berkovich said the couple were convicted on laws that should not have applied to them and incorrect instructions given to the jury.

On appeal, the First Circuit reversed the finding of false arrest because the jury instructions were incorrect and ordered a new trial.